Hockley

[jezza2]

hi jezza well how wonderful that one of the pics shows your old house...that is good news...i well remember our mom taking me shopping with her from where we lived in villa st to the flat..think my lasting memory of that is seeing rows of rabbits hanging outside one of the shops...my rellies in heaton st were the froggatts but they were there in 1891 so well before your family...

lyn

Yeah I picked up on it straight away Lyn , only wish I could remember more . The rabbits I would suggest are likely to be the same butchers where the livestock was unloaded every Saturday I watched .
Not sure where villa street was but did have uncle in Park rd and family friends in Ford street I went to All saints school my sisters to a school further on by the prison

 

[carolina]

I would think it would be Spencers with the rabbits hanging outside.

 

[windemere]

Ford Street 1950. There was always a lamp post when I was there in the late 40s/50s just to the left handside of the picture where we lived and used to swing on, its almost opposite the lamp post on the right side. So I dont know why its not on this picture.

What a great pic Carolina. My first job on leaving school in 1951 was at John Rabones, the large building at the bottom right of Ford St, very happy memories, thank you.

 

[Kate Corrig]

Are there any Pictures of Orford Road Hockley Please?

 

[Radiorails]

Mention is made of Orford Road in this thread:
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/orford-st.18532/

 

[Vivienne14]

Hockley Brook. Sorry no date for this. Viv.

 

[MWS]

A view a long Hockley Hill towards Soho Hill? Soho Hill Chapel in the distance, front of the Grand Turk on the left in the foreground? Map from 1850, photo from green dot, pink dot is Hockley House...

 

[thomas mc]

Hockley Brook

A truck load of sulpherric acid or nitric in carbines wraped in strew, if a frosty day the bottles could crack, not allowed today, must have being a wealthy area going by the size of the cars.